STRACHAN, JOHN [SSNE 5606]
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In 1602 John Strachen, presumably a merchant of Cracow, appeared before the Court there to appoint Thomas Dixon to be his representative as he headed off to Leipsig on "difficult private business".
A John Strachan from Aberdeen was admitted burgess of Cracow in 1617. This likely the same man; the former reference may date from a time before he became a burgess.
Sources: A.F. Steuart, Papers Relating to the Scots in Poland 1576-1793 (Edinburgh, 1915), p.75; Peter Paul Bajer, Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th-18th Centuries (Leiden, 2012), p.118, n.2.
Service record
- POLAND, CRACOW
- Arrived 1602-01-01, as MERCHANT
- Departed 1617-12-31, as BURGESS
- Capacity BURGESS, purpose MERCANTILE